Antonio Melo

Artist, Traveller [Lecturer, University of Seville, Spain]

[Antonio Melo @AntonioMMelo]

El 99% de los “trending topics” no me interesan nada

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[Antonio Melo @AntonioMMelo]

Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT.

What they found should concern every single person reading this.

ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months.

Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months.

The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time.

Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there.

It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed.

Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch.

The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own.

MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back.

The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

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¡Viva Andalucía!

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@MMmarco0 Forza!

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[Paris Paname @ParisAMDParis]

📸 Anonyme.
Matelassière, quai du Louvre
1903. Paris 1er

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@Parisianaes1 Two of each, please!

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@pepesees ¡Feliz Año, Pepe!

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Bancos y sombra…

[Sevilla Insólita @SevillaInsolita]

Antiguo aspecto de la plaza del Salvador.

Año 1908.

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@pepesees le ha faltado pedir leche de soja 🤣🤣🤣

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@sanz_ismael No solo afecta a los estudiantes…

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@UffiziGalleries Meravigliosa

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@denmarkdotdk One of my fav places in Denmark!

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sí es posible otro modelo de espacios públicos 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

🌳 Paris just transformed one of its most iconic squares: Place de l’Hôtel de Ville. Once a vast stone esplanade, it’s now an urban forest.

Inaugurated on June 21, 2025, this project is reshaping how the city tackles climate, space, and livability. 🌍

[Antonio Melo @AntonioMMelo]

Así está el cielo…

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@CamaraLisboa Adoro Lisboa!

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@UNHABITAT I agree… but in the illustration only technical issues are addressed… participation, agency, social management of the habitat are a must…

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[Los Árboles Mágicos ®️, (by Oscar Gaitan) @arboles_magicos]

🔥 Las olas de calor urbanas no afectan igual a todos los barrios.

En algunos, la sombra es un lujo.
En otros, la vegetación hace la vida más habitable.
Pero sin datos, esas diferencias quedan invisibles.

VISAR® detecta los puntos más calientes de tu municipio, y los barrios con más urgencia climática.

Para que las decisiones verdes también sean decisiones justas.

🌳 Porque plantar árboles también es una medida contra la desigualdad.

#VISAR #IslaDeCalor #Teledetección #InfraestructuraVerde #JusticiaClimática #UrbanismoSostenible #LosÁrbolesMágicos

[Antonio Melo @AntonioMMelo]

“el contacto hueco con lo mucho” “el deseo como producto”👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

[Carlos Javier González Serrano @Aspirar_al_uno]

El aburrimiento surge hoy por el contacto hueco con lo mucho: nuestras experiencias nos resultan vacías. Todo está lleno de posibilidades que prometen satisfacer nuestro deseo, pero nunca sucede. El deseo como producto: es el uso mercadotécnico del tedio. https://t.co/AidrGrGd4G

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@laurabarrachina Terrible esta noticia.